Crypto YouTuber says altcoin rally is not over, urges staggered buying

Key updates

• A Hindi-language crypto YouTuber said on 29 September that viewers have not missed the altcoin rally.
• Where CoinDesk reported Quant rose 39% in 24 hours on 25 September, with 93 of 100 index coins up.
• The Altcoin Season Index stood at a neutral 60 of 100 on 29 September, per InvestIn.News market data.

A crypto YouTuber Rohit Sharma on his youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@retirementlabs) told viewers on 29 September that they have not missed the altcoin rally  move, and set out a staged buying plan instead of a single entry. In a video titled "Think Altcoin Rally Is Here? WATCH THIS FIRST!", he said he would show why viewers are "not late" to altcoins and give them a strategy. The claims are his own, made in the video, and he repeated several times that nothing in it is financial advice and that he is not a registered financial adviser.

He opened with a personal loss to make the point. He said his previous channel, Crypto Million by Rohit Sharma, was deleted, and that he and his members bought Solana around $89 in June 2022 during the Russia-Ukraine war sell-off. The price doubled within eight to ten weeks, he said, and they did not sell. It then fell 83% from about $40, and at one stage his and his Gold members' Solana portfolio was down 70%, he said.

From that, he drew two lessons. The first is that the entry price matters less than the plan: whether you buy something at 200, 10 or 50 should not change your decision if you believe it is going to 1,000, he said. The second is that crypto users rush to convince each other they have been cheated when something pumps, a habit he called victimisation and described as crypto's biggest problem.

A costly Solana lesson

He then ran through last 30-day performance figures to argue that the missed opportunity is smaller than it feels. He cited Bitcoin up 7%, ether 8.5%, BNB 11%, XRP 8%, Solana 15%, Zcash 100%, Hyperliquid 12% and Dogecoin 11% over that window. His point: almost nobody bought Zcash or Hyperliquid at the exact bottom, so regret over missing the low is misplaced. If you think Hyperliquid will never repeat such a move, he said, you should not be in crypto.

The market backdrop at the time of writing is more mixed than a simple rally story. Bitcoin traded at $83,824, up 0.87% in 24 hours, and ether at $2,696, up 1.76%, according to InvestIn.News market data as of 06:41 UTC on 29 September. The total value of all crypto was $2.88tn, down 1.38% over the same period, and Bitcoin's share of that value was 58.4%. The Altcoin Season Index stood at 60 of 100, a neutral reading, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 73 of 100, in Greed.

That neutral reading follows a stronger week. CoinDesk reported on 25 September that Quant rose 39% in 24 hours and 93 of the 100 constituents in its CoinDesk 100 index gained, with the altcoin season index at its highest in more than three months. Four days later, the same index sits at a neutral 60, which suggests the broad move has cooled rather than reversed.

What the numbers show

The video's core argument is about how altcoins behave relative to Bitcoin. He called altcoins and smaller coins "oscillators" to Bitcoin, meaning they swing harder in both directions. When Bitcoin falls 10%, altcoins can fall 20%, 30% or 40%, he said, and the current altcoin strength exists mainly because Bitcoin has pumped 20% to 30%. If that Bitcoin move stalls, he warned, altcoins will give back their gains.

His buying plan is deliberately split. He said to  his Gold members bought 10% in August and 20% in September, and that October's 30% or 50% will depend on how the market reacts. He said he flagged 15 September as a key day in a free Telegram channel , writing that it was "not a bad time to invest" and to start with 5% if fully in cash. He also said he does not publish exact buying levels because followers later blame him when trades lose money.

For picking coins, he suggested a revenue screen rather than a chart pattern. He told viewers to ask which crypto currencies generate the most revenue over the past 30 days and to buy those that have not yet pumped. He cited PancakeSwap at about $6m of monthly revenue against a $1m market cap, and Uniswap at roughly $2m of revenue against a $100m market cap, calling the second a "no brainer" on that comparison. He also mentioned Jupiter, Hyperliquid and Radium as examples, and said his Gold members were given a Circle stock idea about a month earlier.

A staged buying plan

He was blunt about the risk of buying altcoins and holding them. Altcoins should not be held for long, he said, because crypto's path has always been a zigzag. Buyers who keep adding on the way down and forget to sell end up stuck, he said, and selling into a falling market is the worst outcome. His rule: never sell while it is going down, never buy while it is going up, and wait for the move to settle.

He also pushed back on the idea that a single call can be timed perfectly. He said his own call that Bitcoin would fall 50% to 58% from its top was an assumption, a guess, and that he holds a lot of Bitcoin himself. He told viewers to build their own strategy, which he called 3C: buying, selling and holding at conviction, rather than mixing advice from several YouTubers.

What to watch next is whether the broad altcoin gains hold. The CoinDesk reading showed 93 of 100 constituents rising on 25 September, but the Altcoin Season Index has since slipped to a neutral 60 and total market value fell 1.38% in 24 hours. The video's own test is Bitcoin: if it keeps moving up, altcoins can keep running, and if it stalls, the same coins tend to give back gains faster. The presenter's October buying decision rests on that same question.

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Sources

• youtube.com: Think Altcoin Rally Is Here? (2026-09-29)
• CoinDesk: Altcoins rally broadly as Bitcoin consolidates near $84,000 (2026-09-25)